I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.